RALLY FLYERS

In 1983, shortly after the remains of the agricultural union merged into the Transport & General Workers’ Union, an annual rally was re-established to commemorate and celebrate the struggles that took place in Burston.

Ever since leading figures in the Labour and Trade Union movement have retraced the steps of their predecessors to come to the village and speak about the great issues of the day. The rally of 1984 marked the 70th anniversary of the first protests of 1914 and from then the Burston Strike School Rally has once again a key date in the Labour movement calendar.

The longest strike in history was not staged by miners but by minors – the children of a small village in Norfolk.

On 1 April, 1914, pupils of the Burston village school, supported by their parents, took to the streets in protest at the dismissal of their teachers, Tom and Kitty Higdon. The strike lasted for over 25 years.

The Strike School was built in resistance to the victimisation faced by the Higdon’s for wanting to improve the living conditions of the agricultural labourers’ , and for believing that a decent education was the right of all.

Welcome to the site of the Burston School Strike and its legacy.

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